[Goodgirlinred]

I just read her speech in that link. She was not bashing the United States. She was using all the five fingers to represent each of the five continents. The United States, as the most powerful, was represented by the longest digit, the middle finger. That did not mean any disrespect. Read her speech again, this time without looking for something bad. This was something that was misinterpreted by a college student who put it online and it went on to radio talk shows. Things grow bigger and bigger with the telling. From the little bit I read in the earlier thread, I thought she was bashing America, too. I don't, now that I have read her speech.

[chgomac]

I've read the whole thing & her only example of Americans was an ugly story about some US businessmen being loud & boorish in a foriegn bar. My gut tell me she told this one story because it's how she sees America.

[Randy Papadoo]

GGIR....Seems to me the Pepsi folks themselves show just how far off your impressions are.

Two executives have apologized for her speech. Even they believe it was done wrong.

Axhandle.....Aren't you getting sick and tired of liberal newsmakers (VIPs and media, etc.) just constantly taking gratuitous political shots and insults at the USA and at conservative thought generally?

Within this past week or so we had Newsweek, Pepsi, and even George Lucas in his Star Wars movie, and I, for one, am just getting so fed up that I believe we need to make noise whenever it happens. All these turkeys have eaten crow when the pressure is put on them, because they're wrong and they know it.

Re Star Wars: George Lucas is in synch with Micheal Moore. They are friends. Now the latest movie was written seven years ago, I'm told, and the bad guys are associated with evil capitalistic organizations, etc, and I read here at FR that the leader of this evil capitalistic organization is named "Nute Gunray", a coy play on the names of Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan. (I haven't seen the movie yet myself.)

If those folks won't give us a break, why should we give them one? They create the crows, we just make 'em eat them.